I put four cameos of other superheroes in this chapter but you guys will only get three the fourth one is a doozie. Wally is my boat I support him with almost anybody I'm even growing to like Artemis. Well anyway here's the last chapter. I hope you guys enjoyed the story! Also thanks to all my reviewers who have been with me since the beginning. You know who you are. Seriously seeing those review alerts really inspired me to finish this to the best of my abilities. I'm actually a little sad now that it's done.
"Hey Aqualad what do you say we go practice a little sparring?" Wally suggested, he was bored. Despite the fact that he got to stay Kid Flash and help out his uncle on patrols he didn't really do anything. His uncle took care of all potential dangers before he could blink and Wally was stuck on getting cats out of trees duty. After he had fallen one time Barry had silently declared climbing trees too dangerous and now the most action he got was placing handcuffs on apprehended criminals.
"I do not think that would be wise. You should rest." Aqualad said calmly.
Wally clenched his fists, that was another thing he hated. His team seemed to think that he was fragile like one little push would break him. They'd been treating him like a baby even Artemis and Robin.
"How about you Supey? Wanna see if you can catch the fastest boy alive."
Out of the corner of his eye he could see Aqualad discreetly shaking his head.
Not waiting for Superboy's answer he turned to Artemis. "What do ya say Missy? Me, you alone in the training room." He wiggled his eyebrows grinning at her.
"No thanks."
Wally frowned that comment should have had her in a rage he'd even made use of the nickname she hated.
"Fine." Wally muttered stalking away, "I see how it is."
"Where are you going?"
"To my room or am I not allowed to that either. Is it too dangerous for me to walk by myself now?"
He heard someone take a sharp intake of breath. "Wally it's not like that."
"Apparently it is." He snapped not turning around, "Save it I don't wanna hear it."
Kid Flash: Fail
"Okay hit the showers." Black Canary ordered she had wiped the floor with all of them today but not as much as Kid Flash.
She eyed his teammates noting how they weren't snickering or teasing him about the fact that he had gotten his ass handed to him badly. That was a problem. Judging by the grim expression on Wally's face he'd noticed it too.
"You've realized the problem as well correct." A voice hissed in her ear.
"Yes. We've got to figure out to rectify this situation."
"What situation? What's the problem?" Barry asked, Batman and Black Canary had called him here to watch his nephew train and he hadn't noticed anything strange.
"Wally has lost all his self-confidence if he had any to begin with." Black Canary said. "The way the team has been treating him isn't helping either. Didn't you notice that he was moving slower than usual?"
Barry shrugged, "Not really he's always been slower than me."
"Another reason. I know you wouldn't do it on purpose Barry but your constant comments about him not being as fast as you could've have put a mental block on his powers. Not to mention you're treating him like an invalid."
"What I still let him patrol with me! Bats has him cooped up in here when the team goes on missions."
"Doing something useful. What does he do when he goes on patrol with you? Nothing. He just stands there. You care Barry I get it but your over protectiveness is only hindering the boy."
"Look you don't tell me how to raise my kid and I won't tell you how to raise yours. That goes for you too Dinah." Barry said leaving the room.
"So what do we do?"
"There's nothing we can do. Barry is right, Wally is his son and protégé and has the right to train him however he wants. The team won't stop babying him until Barry does."
"You and me on the other hand will continue to treat him the same way we did before all this happened."
"Precisely. He has yet to attend any sessions with you. Is he prepared to go back into battle? Missions?"
"J'onn scoped his head when he was sleeping. He's just afraid of us being ashamed or angry with him. I was informed that all of those negative feelings come from an incident with a girl named-"
"Anita Fite."
"How..." Black Canary trailed off with a shake of her head, "Yes she seems to be the root of his insecurities. If we find her-"
"She's dead." Batman said bluntly, "Did you know when Wally was younger he could vibrate his molecules through walls. He only did it once before he met Barry. Anita died in the process. Witnessing her death and believing himself to be the cause if her death and Barry's unintentional belittling has given him a mental block on his powers. He's nowhere as advanced as he was when he was eleven."
"So what about Anita? What do we about her?"
"There's nothing we can do. He has to get over her death himself. We can however allow him to go on missions again."
"Will Barry approve?"
"Wally will be happy to hear the news."
"So I'm guessing that's a no."
"Wally stay here!" Flash demanded.
"But I can help!"
"Stay here." Flash shouted running towards the burning building.
Wally watched him go a frown on his face what was the point of being Kid Flash if he couldn't help people? He stood there waiting, watching as his uncle ran in and out of the building bringing people with him.
"Flash my grandfather he's on the tenth floor."
"I'm on it ma'am!"
An officer grabbed his arm, "That building is going to collapse any second now!"
"Then I better get on it!" He shouted running in the building.
"Flash wait, my daughter she's on the fifteenth floor!" A woman called out.
It was too late Barry hadn't heard her and when he came out it'd be too late. Making his decision he put on his goggles running towards the lady.
"Don't worry I'll save your daughter." He said firmly before running into the burning inferno.
Barry came out a few seconds later handing the old man to the paramedics. There that was everybody. He looked around for his nephew frowning when he didn't find him. Maybe he went home.
He turned to a cop, "Have you seen Kid Flash?"
"Yeah he just ran in there to help rescue some woman's daughter."
Barry stared in horror at the burning building he'd go in but having two speedsters in an unstable building was nothing but trouble. All he could so was wait.
Running into the building Wally realized two things: one he had no idea what room the girl was in and two he didn't know her name. He'd have to go through every room and check every nook and cranny if he wanted to find her and he was going to find her.
Wally ran into another room, "Hello?" He scanned the room, eyes watering from all the smoke. This was the last room on the floor if she wasn't in here it meant he missed her. He'd have to go recheck all the rooms again. He coughed, as he got ready to leave the room when he saw a sliver of pink. He ran over seeing an unconscious girl in bright pink pajamas. He picked her up tucking her in his arms.
"I knew someone would come." She coughed.
Wally nodded shifting her in one arm, moving the other one and making a small tornado to clear the smoke away from them. He briefly wondered how she was still conscious but that wasn't his priority right now.
"Are you okay?"
"I'm fine."
"What's your name?"
"Toni."
"Okay Toni I'm gonna get you out of here. It'll be bumpy so keep your eyes close and hold on tight. Can you do this for me."
Toni nodded biting her lip.
"Don't worry." Wally said looking around, the little oxygen he had created was being destroyed by the flames.
A loud crumbling sound was heard and a few seconds later the ceiling came down in front of the door.
Wally cursed looking around he was not gonna let another kid die on watch. He coughed inhaling a large puff of smoke and looked down Toni had passed out already. Most casualties in fires were from smoke inhalation not the fire itself.
He backed up trapped along the wall and swallowed loudly as he began to vibrate. It was a stretch but of he could run and vibrate through the walls he could make it outside. Another crack and a support beam came down barely missing him. Making his decision Wally vibrated going as fast as he could a look of determination etched on his features.
Don't stop, don't stop keep going. Run, vibrate don't look back and suddenly he was falling.
Wally tucked into himself preventing Toni from getting hurt as he landed on the ground outside the apartment rolling and tumbling to the ground. He let a loud whoop as he sat up he had done it; he had vibrated right out the fifteenth floor. Sure falling fifteenth stories and rolling down a hill had hurt like a bitch but he had vibrated through the walls.
Looking at the kid in his arms he swirled his fingers pointing at her nose and mouth sending a burst of air in them.
Toni let out a snort coughing out a puff of smoke but stayed asleep. Wally looked at her satisfied she still might need a mask later on but he had gotten a lot of the smoke out. He stood up on shaky feet frowning he could have sworn he heard a snap in one of his feet when he landed on the ground. In fact he realized he didn't feel hurt at all. Wally stared at the palm in his hand watching as the cuts and nicks healed before his eyes he's never healed this fast before. He wondered if Anita would be mad that he saved another girl but couldn't save her. No. She'd be happy for him. She'd want him to live his life not to blame himself for death and wonder what would have been. He chuckled soberly Anita would probably beat him up for stressing about it all these years.
A chrysanthemum flew info the air, Anita's favorite flower, flying around him before floating up into the sky. For the first time in years he felt light and free.
The building twenty feet away from him crumbled and he jumped. Wally had forgotten about the girl he had saved. Shifting her in his arms he smiled better go return her to her mother before she went frantic. Wally took one last look at the girl in his arms frowning was her skin glowing sliver. He rubbed his eyes and the glow was gone.
"I just must be hungry. All that smoke couldn't have been good either." He said before running back.
Barry could only watch in horror as the building came crumbling down. Wally oh god why Wally? If he had just stayed but he ran because he told him to stay.
A few feet away a woman was mumbling about it being all her fault that she had killed two kids.
A cop gripped his shoulder, "Flash I'm sor-"
"Shut up."
Wally had left him, and it was all his fault...
"Toni! You're okay!"
Barry looked up to see Wally handing a child off to her mother and felt his heart implode. Wally was here he was okay. Standing there filled with flesh and blood not dead and standing right in front of him.
"I'm sorry I left without permission but I couldn't just do nothing. You didn't hear the lady yell about her kid and I did."
Barry cut him off pulling him into his arms, "I don't care. I'm just glad you're okay. If anything I'm sorry for trying to keep you from being who you are. You're a hero and I can't help but worry but stopping you will only put you a greater risk."
"So you're not mad I ran off."
"No if you hadn't that child would be dead. You wouldn't be the Wally I know if you hadn't run off."
"Awesome! Inthat case I vibratedmy moleculesthrough the walls. It was so cool andmyspeedhealing wentlikesuperfast."
Barry ruffled his hair as his kid went in and out of speed talk. "You can tell me and Iris when we got home. Until then race ya!" He shouted taking off.
"Hey no fair! Cheater." Wally shouted chasing after him.
He looked backed shock to discover Wally gaining on him quickly it was only a matter of time before he passed him. Wally really would be the fastest man alive.
"This is a disaster heavy on the dis." Robin muttered.
Batman had sent then on a mission to gain intel on some new illegal drug. Somebody had joined Venom with Velocity 9 to create a new super drug. They had managed to gain intel and destroy most of the produce but had been captured by a man on the drug. He called himself Godzilla.
They were now trapped in a row of cells in a building that was set to explode. When; they didn't know. What they did know however, was that they were trapped; apparently the man had done his research. M'gann and Kaldur were trapped in a cell with the bars coated in some spry of chemical that would burst into flames of touched with water. They hadn't believed him and had just about fainted from the heat.
Connor was in a glass cell that would cause the bomb to off in less then ten seconds if broken. After seeing what had happened to M'gann and Kaldur he didn't want to take that chance. He may have been invulnerable but his friends were not.
Artemis and Robin were trapped in joint cages lacking their equipment after a thorough pat down.
Wally was in a metal room, with metal bonds wrapped around his wrists and legs. Seeing as he could create enough friction to burn off rope bonds.
They could all see each other from their own cells and were trying to figure a way out.
"That dude took all of my gadgets even the bobby pin I keep in my shoe!" Artemis snarled.
"I could vibrate my molecules through the bonds."
"Do not strain yourself my friend." Kaldur said weakly.
Wally rolled his eyes he was getting really tired or them thinking he was weak or invalid. If Barry could get over it so could they. With that in mind he began vibrating his body.
"KF stop you're just gonna hurt yourself." Robin shouted before drawing back as Wally shot him a fierce glare.
Wally glared at him inwardly smirking when he took an involuntary step backwards and began moving faster. He had done it once he could do it again.
The metal bonds fell through his wrists and ankles falling on the floor.
"KF-"
"Robin shut up." He snapped, getting tired of people trying to baby him. He walked up to the door of his cell vibrating himself through it.
"Go contact the League." Artemis shouted
Wally held in a growl tuning out the advice of his friend. They were just trying to be helpful. Instead he ran to Kaldur and M'gann's cell putting out the fire with the mini tornados he created with his arms.
Ignoring the pain in his hands Wally grabbed two melted metal bars pulling them out wards. When he had made a decent enough part he reached in dragging his two scorched teammates out.
When it came to Robin's and Artemis' cell he gripped the bars vibrating his hands until it melted and pulled them apart making a big enough space for them to walk through.
"Thanks KF still should have called the Justice League."
"I can look and take care of myself." He hissed.
"I hear ticking." Superboy said.
"The bomb." Wally said. "Where's it coming from?"
"Three floors down."
"Got it. Superboy I'm gonna go get the bomb. You need to break the glass and get M'gann and Kaldur to safety. Robin and Artemis you guys need to get out of here too."
"Are you crazy! Look take me with you and I can help disarm the bomb."
Wally merely raised an eyebrow before running towards the basement. Three stories down that was no problem he was faster than before. Ignoring the gnawning tell of hunger in his stomach he ran faster, grabbing the bomb as he heard glass break somewhere.
Vibrate through the wall check. He was outside now. Awesome! He spun around as quickly as possible just managing to let go just as it exploded the resulting blast sending him flying through the air and tumbling to the ground. He was skidding across the ground when he hit something solid. Wally reached up touching his head that was gonna hurt. He had hit a tree and now he had a headache not to mention that his rush of adrenaline was gone his stomach hurt. A quick little nap wouldn't hurt anybody.
That was two weeks ago after his friends had found him unconscious the overprotectiveness seemed to increase almost tenfold. Lucky for him Barry had gotten over that phase. Wally was just trying not to snap his friends they were just looking out for him but it was starting it get it in his nerves.
Wally trudged into the kitchen grabbing a carton of milk when it was lifted out of his hand.
"Let me help. You shouldn't strain yourself." M'gann said.
"I can lift a carton of milk." He said through clenched teeth.
"I just wanna help."
Wally ignored her taking a deep breath grabbing a knife and other materials to make a sandwich, when the knife was taken out his hand.
"Allow me my friend." Kaldur said.
Wally twitched ever so slightly instead grabbing a glass cup from the cabinet when that was snatched out of his hand, he stared incredulously at the offender.
"I got this bro. Just relax."
"That's it! I can't take it anymore! You guys are driving me crazy! I can pour my own goddamn glass of milk. I can make a fucking sandwich and I most certainly can carry a carton of milk!"
"Wally they're..we just wanna help." Artemis said.
"Stop trying to help! You guys didn't do any of this before you saw my memories. Stop treating me like an invalid! Go back to treating me the way you guys did before. I'm still the same old Wally. I'm not a little kid. Either treat me like I'm your teammate or don't come near me at all." He finished walking away from the room.
"About time." Batman muttered.
"Did you know he beat me in practice today. Well for a second at least." Black Canary stated.
"He can also vibrate through solid materials now."
"Tell him he has one mandatory talk session with me."
"How do you feel?"
Wally stared at her from his place on the green armchair across from her. He pursued his lips as he thought about her question.
"Well?"
"I don't feel anything. It sounds weird but I feel fine. I just I feel content."
"So you've worked past any hidden issues you may have had."
"Well mostly I just feel like maybe you guys would be ashamed at how weak I acted in my memories." He said shuffling his hands.
Black Canary stood up standing up and holding out her hand. Wally stared up at her with a confused look and grabbed the hand and with a jerk found himself in a tight hug.
"Your past doesn't matter. The people who count would never be ashamed of your past. Always remember that."
"Thanks."
"Wally, we just wanna say were sorry for babying you." M'gann said carefully, "We were just worried."
"I know, and I'm sorry for lashing out at you guys like that."
"We deserved it though. We shouldn't have treated you any differently after seeing your memories."
"I thought maybe you guys were ashamed of me or something."
Artemis walked over to him looking him in the eyes before slapping him in the head.
"Ow what the hell Arty?"
"Idiot! We'd never be ashamed of you. You're such a drama king Baywatch."
"Someone's not feeling the aster." Robin said wrapping an arm around his shoulder, KF really was shorter than they realized.
Wally snickered shoving Robin away from him, "Dude you have got to stop with that. You know aster is a flower right?"
Robin spluttered his mouth dropping open, "What! No way!"
Wally grinned happy that his friends were treating him like a friend again.
!*!
It was a bit weird for the members of Young Justice to get use to Wally. The shy, insecure side of Kid Flash. He kept up the ruse of blundering idiot as Kid Flash to have the element of surprise against villains. Back at the mountain however he was his insecure somewhat loud self.
Instead of flirting with Artemis and M'gann he blushed and rambled conversations on end.
Robin would've teased him if it didn't work. The girls thought it was adorable and now went out of their way to make him blush. It actually turned into a competition on who could make him blush more and eventually Rocket and Zatanna got into it.
Maybe he should try that at school when he was around Bette and Barbara...nah they knew him to well for that to work...then again...
"I'll see you guys later." Wally waved.
Even though James and Hartley didn't go to the same school as him he found friends in Victor Stone, Kori Anders and Rachel Roth. Victor was the popular star senior quarterback who was into auto mechanics and technology him and Robin would get along great. Then again maybe not they were both stubborn and liked to be in charge. Kori was a preppy redheaded cheerleader with lime green eyes now that he thought about it she reminded him a lot of M'gann. She was energetic and curious about life as M'gann was. She was like an alien sometimes completely lost to everyday terms and objects. Rachel was a quiet girl with sarcastic wit, the only person in the school who have him a run for his money when it came to grades. He often wondered how she became friends with Vic and Kori considering that they were so loud and she was so quiet.
"Bye Wally!" Kori shouted, waving energetically she was so happy it looked like she was floating. Rachel gave him a small smile and Victor nodded his head.
He turned and promptly bumped into a girl sending both her stuff crashing to the ground.
"Sorry." He muttered looking up at the girl. She was beautiful from what he could tell he didn't see her face. She also looked to be a type of Asian maybe Korean.
"Hey."
"Hey yourself."
The girl looked up and she was gorgeous. Long dark hair, and sparkling, shimmering, flickering, brown eyes.
"Anita." He whispered
"What?"
"What!"
This wasn't Anita, this was a completely different girl minus the eyes. Anita was dead and for the second time in his life he was completely at ease with that.
"Are you always this articulate?" She smirked.
And she was a Disney fan he had found his soul mate.
"Yes! I mean no! I mean I'm hi." Wally blushed feeling his cheeks turn red, "I mean I'm Wally West."
He stood up, giving her a hand up and handing her books to her.
The girl giggled tossing her dark hair back. "I'm Linda Park. Well nice to meet you Wally." She said.
"You too Linda." He whispered watching her go.
Linda Park.
He had just fallen in love. Utterly, desperately, hopelessly, in love with her. She was beautiful. Perfect. Amazing. Spectacular.
Linda Park